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TIL that inkjet printers made by companies such as HP and Epson lie to you by telling you your ink cartridges are empty before they really are.

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16w7D TIL that according to etymologists and all searches conducted of historical usage, the term “bucket list” as the idiom we know today was never used in any book, newspaper, or publication until the movie “The Bucket List” came out in 2007. All prior uses have been debunked as misdated.
wL677 TIL that during the Cold War, an American CIA agent devised a psychological warfare plan to drop very large condoms labelled "medium" to intimidate and demoralize the Soviet troops. The plan was not executed.
nWNX7 TIL that the world's largest collection of flutes (yes, the musical instrument) is held by the US Library of Congress.
neVQ7 TIL The first "bleep" censor machine was invented in 1921 after Vaudeville actress Olga Petrova appeared on a Newark radio station making an oblique reference to the need for birth control in violation of the Comstock Laws.
VBQYD TIL Abraham Lincoln owned a patent for inventing a device that helped lift river boats over obstructions